File:Undergroundrailroadsmall2.jpg

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English: "Routes of the Underground Railroad." Whole map of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but a network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada.
Date Copyrighted originally in 1898.
Source http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/CWPics/86139.jpg. Compiled from "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Wilbur H. Siebert, The Macmillan Company, 1898.[1]
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current10:29, 8 November 2005Thumbnail for version as of 10:29, 8 November 20051,035 × 600 (274 KB)JA1BSR~commonswikiReduced map of the underground railroad. Original source(via English Wikipedia): http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/CWPics/86139.jpg Copyrighted originally in 1895. {{PD-old}}

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